Super Simple Fairy Light Ideas

Nothing adds beauty and charm to an outdoor space as quickly and easily as fairy lights! Here are 3 super simple fairy light ideas for your back yard.

The Simple Stupid train is running full steam ahead here at The Navage Patch! (For those not familiar with our new motto, please read about it here.) Since our deck reveal post, we’ve received a lot of inquiries about the lighted side table in some of the pictures. Today, I’ll show you how to make that table and give you two other super simple fairy light ideas that you can finish in about a minute (okay, I’ll give you 5 minutes, in case you want a tea break). They may be quick and easy (Simple Stupid), but they look incredible at night, and they’ll make your backyard living area pop!

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Super Simple Fairy Light Side Table

We used a metal, copperish planter, but feel free to use any outdoor planter. If your planter is not metal (or copper colored), you can spray paint the interior with this copper paint. It really helps to give the table a warm glow at night.

Comments

I love how this looks; I’ll be on the lookout for a second-hand wine rack so we can replicate this too 🙂 I’m wondering what the 3 copper looking objects are beside the cloche in the last picture? Are they DIY, did you add the rope, am I asking too many questions – lol?

Hi Sara, no they are not DIY. I bought them from Lakeside.com 2 years ago. Lakeside doesn’t carry them anymore, but I found the same ones also on Amazon. Here is the link for it: https://amzn.to/2BfI7t9

I sure wish that we had a Put and Take here, or one of those basements with a never ending supply of junk treasures. LOL . Yall did a fabulous job on the fairy lights. I love all of them. Very clever ideas. I’ve seen the wine racks similar to this at Goodwill but never thought of this. Now I bet I never see another.

Oh Handan i love these ideas! These micro LED lights are so versatile , have some solar ones in a Willow tree and an Acer bush also some i use indoors, i have a large slightly battered iron cauldron, i have been thinking about painting the inside gold and putting lights in it.

Well, great job, Greg!! Thanks! Years ago, when the “lights in a bottle” fad got started, I had a friend who was painting beautiful flowers and such on old wine bottles. Then, we would drop in a small strand of Christmas lights, replace the cork, and thread the wire out of the bottle. In order to cover the ugly cords, I would wrap the cork and wire/plug with either ribbon or fabric strips. Now, I just bought a batch of battery-powered fairy lights for bottles with plastic “cork-looking” switches. Now, they are solar!! Perfect! So much less trouble than what we did! (I’m switching out all those ugly corded ones for solar!) Thanks again, for great ideas!

You’ve given me a bunch of ideas! <3! Here's one of mine. This I've done. Take a wire hanging planter and wrap fairy lights around the frame work. Hang some glass pendants on it and voila: chandelier! It was out of the sun on a porch, so I used a 60 light battery pack set.

Hey Greg! I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong with the solar lights! Yours look so BRIGHT and GOLDEN at night! But mine only give a very dim glow…….I’m using the same ones as you guys, ordered them after one of Handan’s posts. Any ideas? Thanks!

i have been a follower of kiss most of my life, convoluted just ain’t my style lol, I missed commenting on your last post as my youngest grandson decided to give my keyboard a glass of strawberry milk God love him, your back deck is the thing dreams are made of xx

I knew when I open your email that this DIY would be great, but I had no idea that they would be out of this world fabulous. And all so simple. I also love how you narrate your steps, so funny.😀😃😄. Thank for sharing these gorgeous DIY’s. for sure I will creat at least one. Mock, maybe two. Alright, all of them. Why? Because I love them all, and know they would be fabulous on our patio.

I love your idea of putting fairy lights under a large glass cloche for an easy lighting solution. My husband and I are hosting a party next week, so I’ve been looking for some easy and creative lighting ideas that will add to the atmosphere. Covering the fairy lights with a cloche seems almost too easy, but it looks great! Thanks for sharing these great fairy light ideas!

This is too funny. While i am reading these end of year wrap up ideas now i remember why a cloche was on my wanted/shopping list. I didnt get it because i couldnt remember the project. Now i know it was fairy lights. Now, why did i have a shadowbox on same list??? Lol

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